'KILLING GROUND' WORLD PREMIERE AT MIFF

12 July, 2016

Damien Power's survival thriller Killing Ground is set to have its World Premiere at the Melbourne International Film Festival with screenings on August 4th and 6th. I'm fortunate enough to have played the incredibly complex Chook alongside one of our country's greatest actors Aaron Pedersen (Goldstone) with the exceptional Harriet Dyer, Ian Meadows, Julian Garner, Maya Stange and Tiarnie Coupland. Its a highly suspenseful thriller that will have you on the edge of your seat from beginning to end.

When young urbanites Ian and Sam decide to go camping, they arrive at their isolated destination to discover another tent already set up, but no sign of its owners. With the other campers at large, Ian and Sam's discovery of a child wandering alone sets off a terrifying chain of events that will push them to their limits – and beyond.

Inspired by Michael Haneke's Funny Games and Sam Peckinpah's Straw Dogs, writer/director Damien Power's gloriously tense and unsettling feature-film debut Killing Ground showcases a menacingly against-type Aaron Pedersen, in a low-budget survival thriller pulsing with high-stakes scares, piercing intensity and shocking violence that will make you think twice next time you dare to head beyond the bright lights of the city.